AI for Cities/Projects

Projects

Applications, datasets and models built by the group. Each one is meant to be opened, not just cited.

New York City on a 250-metre grid, each populated cell coloured by its best-matched cooling intervention
Live New York City Urban heat

Heatscape NYC

High-resolution crowdsourced insight into extreme heat vulnerability across New York City. 250-metre grid cells score heat risk and system dynamics across 43 indicators.

The URIS Mapper causal diagram editor, showing a system-dynamics view with feedback loop badges and the Loop Assistant panel
Live Causal loop diagrams System dynamics

URIS Mapper

A human-AI online platform leveraging knowledge graph retrieval for interdisciplinary urban intelligence and systems mapping.


Workstreams

In development

Four threads run in parallel underneath the shipped work. Each has a named lead and is where new projects come from.

In development

Urban Digital Twin Platform

Scalable, efficient infrastructure for visualisation, analytics and simulation — the substrate every other workstream builds on.

In development

Spatial AI and Reasoning

Machine learning and data analytics for high-resolution spatial understanding: flow prediction, anomaly detection, and inference of the patterns cities leave in their data.

In development

Agentic Geospatial Intelligence

Agentic tools, servers and knowledge infrastructure that let frontier models reason about places rather than just describe them.

In development

Policy & Deployment

Translating research into practice through municipal partnerships, pilot digital-twin deployments, and honest assessment of what changed in the planning decisions that followed.

Build the next one

Depending on interest, milestones can include developing your own app or AI project, presenting it to stakeholders, releasing a code package or dataset, or publishing.